Seer of ghosts & weaver of stories

(You are very much not forgotten)

V for Vendetta: It never gets old. Sadly, I had to defer watching it to the 6th.

State and Main: I can't believe I'd never bothered to watch this before, considering that I think Mamet is pretty brilliant. Sarah Jessica Parker always makes me roll my eyes, but the dialogue in this film is just perfect. Also, I don't have a track record of liking Philip Seymour Hoffman in films, but man, I loved him in this!

The Orphanage: My reaction to this is jammed somewhere between my reaction to Stir of Echoes and my reaction to The Prestige. This film is beautifully, eerily shot, but it hit all my bad buttons. I didn't sleep terribly well after seeing it.

Dead Poets' Society: I had seen this film previously in fits and fragments, so this evening's viewing was the first time I've seen it all in one piece. It's an inspiring, moving piece, but I wasn't quite torn to pieces the way some people I know have been. By now, I think I'm kind of numb to this kind of story. Or if not numb, I at least can keep myself under control.

Hot Fuzz special features: Those video-blogs are the cutest thing ever. And the deleted scenes? Precious. Very precious. There's some information in them I'll be glad to have at my disposal. Nicholas and Danny are my favorite thing in the world at the moment, and I can't see them walking out of my head any time soon.

* For a full list of publication credits in poetry and fiction, see my profile.

ABOUT

A.J. Odasso's poetry has appeared in an eclectic variety of publications, including Sybil's Garage, Mythic Delirium, Jabberwocky, Cabinet des Fées, Midnight Echo, Not One of Us, Dreams & Nightmares, Goblin Fruit, Strange Horizons, Stone Telling, Farrago's Wainscot, Through the Gate, Liminality, inkscrawl, Battersea Review, Barking Sycamores, and New England Review of Books. Her début collection, Lost Books (Flipped Eye Publishing), was nominated for the 2010 London New Poetry Award and for the 2011 Forward Prize, and was also a finalist for the 2011 People's Book Prize. Her second collection with Flipped Eye, The Dishonesty of Dreams, was released in 2014. She holds degrees from Wellesley College (B.A. in English), University of York (M.A. in Medieval Studies), and Boston University (M.F.A. in Creative Writing). She has served in the Poetry Department at Strange Horizons since 2012.